A narrative history covering the period c .1000 to c. 1300 AD, making no assumptions about what readers already know and which presents the following argument: there were countless variations in religious belief and practice in the first centuries of the second millennium - as there had been practically since the beginning of the first - but none was a threat: unorthodox doctrine in itself posed no danger to church or secular authority and was not a source of serious anxiety before the middle of...
Meister Eckhart : the Man from Whom God Nothing Hid
by Meister Eckhart
Goetia Daemonium
by Frater Malunakh Dahnoa, Aubrey Melech, and Nocturnus Dominus
The Political Thought of Alfred Rosenberg
by John R Coe and James Biser Whisker
David Nash's new study focuses on the development of blasphemy in the Christian world. Tracing the subject from the Middle Ages to the present, he outlines the history of blasphemy as a concept, from a species of heresy to modern understandings of it as a crime against the sacred and individual religious identity. Investigating its appearance in speech, literature, popular publishing and the cinema, he disinters the likely motives and agendas of blasphemers themselves, as well as offering a glim...
